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Institute of Place-Making, 2013 with Kaegh Allen, Ilse van den Berg, Erik van der Gaag, Charlotte Grace, Rogier Hendriks, Doris van Hooijdonk, Marleen Klompenhouwer, Emiel Meijerink, Eva Nicolai, Pépé Niemeijer and Sarah Roberts

The Institute of Place Making discovers and makes visible the notion of place and how it evolves.

As a group of students we developed the idea and subsequently “founded” the Institute of Place-Making, which than appeared for the first time at Oerol 2013 (themed “Sense of Place”). The documenting of how people understood place-and which places ment most to them on the island of Terschelling-was done by mapping, categorizing and analyzing feedback of visitors and inhabitants on their experience with Terschelling’s landscape.

By first handing out test tubes, later documenting the results on photographs which were then published on a website (www.iopm.nl) with a map of the island indicating the values visitors and inhabitants endow to a variety of places found on the island. The test-tubes were then collected in cabinet’s that formed an interactive classification exhibition at the Institutes’  laboratory at ‘Duinmeertje Hee’.